[Coco] Playing dirty with the SuperIDE again

Retro Canada retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 00:35:43 EST 2012


it might work as well with rgbdos dont have it to test. 

just a note if you run hdbdosc2 from a floppy dont forget to drive on before exec'ing

but this is the feature i wished from day 0 of my superide.

felipe

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On 2012-11-30, at 12:18 AM, Luis Antoniosi <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I managed to copy DECB disks from DriveWire to SuperIDE and vice-versa
> in BASIC :D
> 
> It only works with the dw in coco2 mode. The process is pretty simple
> and can be run on a coco3 or coco2 (in allram) mode:
> 
> 1) from superIDE booting in hdbdos mode (not the DW mode) load and
> execute the HDBDOSC2.BIN from any virtual disk, or a floppy if you
> wish
> 2) once in DW for CoCo2, attach the wired.dsk the DW server
> 3) run the BKP.BAS from the disk
> 
> it will prompt for source and target. Simple as that. Don't forget to
> config your DW for coco2.
> 
> The HDBDOSC3 crashes when using this trick, so this is why i'm using
> in coco2 mode. But works on coco3 pretty well
> 
> I will leave for you to figure out the simple trick I use :D
> 
> Enjoy
> 
> 
> 
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